CPanel is a fully featured web-based control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface. Access logs and statistics. Manage your site, including file manager, custom error pages, MIME types, cron jobs, and Apache handlers. You can even check your email from any browser! The idea is to transfer as much of the control and responsibility of managing your web site to you. You have the ability to manage all aspects of e-mail, files, backup, FTP, CGI scripts, and web site statistics.

Themes are the visual representation of the CPanel user interface - in other words, what CPanel looks like. We offer number of standard cPanel themes. In case, you would like to have your default cPanel theme change, you can contact the Support Team.

POP or "Post Office Protocol" accounts refer to the means by which email is retrieved from various mail servers. You also have the option of setting up aliases, forwarders, and autoresponders through your control panel. The Mail area allows you to manage all aspects of your e-mail, from adding new accounts, managing mailing lists, and setting spam filters. There are quite a number of options available, so take your time.

All e-mail options can be used in conjunction with each other. For example, you could set up an autoresponder on your main account to e-mail an "Out of Office" message, a forwarder to send the e-mail to your uncle's house where you are staying, and a spam filter to reject all e-mail with "credit" in the subject line. This flexibility is what makes e-mail so powerful as a communication medium.

There's no room for spam at Host4Website. This features lets you easily block and filter any incoming emails through your control panel by using the To, From, Subject, Header or Body contents. You can block an e-mail using spam filters. Spam is the electronic version of junk mail, and has been around since the Internet was created. E-mail filters are a way of filtering your e-mail to remove unwanted mail based on a variety of criteria. You can block any sort of e-mail, not just mail of a commercial nature.

Also known as mail bots or info bots, auto responders are default programs that automatically send documents to any incoming emails. You have control over the content of the automatic responses. Autoresponders are e-mail messages that are sent automatically when an e-mail arrives for a specific e-mail account. Autoresponders are most commonly used for an "Out of Office" style message to inform your correspondents that you are not available, without you having to reply manually. You can have more than one autoresponder on one account. You can use plain text or include HTML code in the autoresponder, and choose from a wide variety of character sets.

This great feature allows you to easily set up forwarding email addresses. Friends, clients, and associates will send emails to one address, for instance, and they will all be forwarded to your own Inbox, which is at a different email address location. Forwards simply allow you to automatically forward e-mail sent to one account to another account. This is useful when you work at two separate locations, or have gone on holiday.

You may write, send, and receive emails and manage all email content on our servers, using your own control panel. This can be done, for example, via a browser such as Internet Explorer because it is "based" on the "web." Microsoft's Hotmail is an example of this. You can read your online e-mail using NeoMail, Horde, or SquirrelMail. All of these popular web mail applications allow you to read your e-mail, save them, keep an address book, and perform all of the other basic e-mail functions that you are used to. The main difference between web mail and an offline e-mail applications, such as Eudora or Microsoft Outlook Express, is that all of these functions are performed online, rather than on your own computer, and offline applications generally provide more features.
Web mail is optional. You can still use your favorite offline e-mail applications, if you prefer.

Mailing lists give you the option of emailing multiple recipients and allows outside visitors to subsribe. A great tool for sending newsletters. Mailing lists are an ideal tool for communication between far-flung participants and can be about anything you want. Mailman allows you to set up a mailing list with a large number of configurable options, such as who is on the list, where mailing lists messages are sent, and whether you include welcoming messages to new subscribers.

Spam Assassin is a mail filter installed on a mail server used to identify spam. It checks for spam using a large number of pre-set rules that check the header, body, and sender of all e-mail messages sent to your domain mailbox.

By altering your MX (Mail Exchange Record) Entry you can point your e-mail to another mail server, if this is required.
We will not be able to manage your e-mail if you change your MX Entry setting. Do not change your MX Entry unless you know what you are doing.

These domains are additional ones you can host under your account. An addon domain is a domain name that that points to a subdirectory within your account. For example, you may want innovation.org.nz to point to business.org.nz/innovation/. Addon domains must be registered domain names that you own and configured to point to your web site's servers.

The FTP area deals with all the tools relating to setting up and managing FTP accounts, as well as managing FTP sessions. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method by which you can transfer files between computers, usually using the Internet.
We allows you to set up FTP accounts so that certain external users can access a restricted part of your system. When using FTP you use an application called a "client" to connect to a machine called a "server". There are a large number of FTP software packages available. Some of them are built in to your browser (such as Internet Explorer), others are dedicated applications (such as such as CuteFTP or WS_FTP), while still others are built into web applications (File Manager in CPanel is one example). Generally speaking, if you are going to spend a lot of time using FTP or have a large amount of files to upload/download, a dedicated FTP client is the way to go.

The File Manager allows you to manage your site through HTML, rather than an FTP tool or other third-party application. You can upload, create or delete files, organize files in folders, and change file permissions. While not as sophisticated as most FTP tools, File Manager is free and gives you all the basic functionality necessary to manage your site.
You can use File Manager to upload files to your web site, up to 12 files in one go. Although useful, a third-party FTP client has many more features and does not limit you to the number of files you can upload at one time.

Your site contents backed up weekly to avoid lost data and headaches. The Backup area allows you to download the daily, weekly, or monthly backup file of your entire web site, or a particular MySQL, alias, or filter backup file. If your computer crashes, or your personal backups are destroyed, these files allow you to recover your site in a convenient manner (you could also use FTP to download each file, but it would take much longer as the files are not compressed).

Password protected directories allow you to create secure directories on your domain for private/restricted document viewing. Upon attempted access, users will be prompted for username and password, information that only you have access to. You can protect directories within your site from browsers by using a password to protect them. This allows you to restrict material to only authorized users or store sensitive material online.
You need to change authorized user's password if they have forgotten their password or they think someone has access to their account. It is a good idea to regularly change passwords.Your domain password is the password you use to log on to your CPanel. You should change this occasionally to maximize your site security. You should always change your password if you think someone else has access to your account.

Sub domains are supplemental or "subsidiary" domains that are accessible relative to primary domain names, i.e. http://subdomain.domain.com. One of our sub domains is http://accounts.host4website.com. Subdomains are a way of creating separate accounts within your master account, which are accessed as separate URLs. For example, you could set up a "timber" subdomain on your master account "hardware.org.mart", which would be accessed as "timber.hardware.org.mart".

Structured Query Language or "SQL" is an industry standard programming language used for getting information from and updating to a database. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an international standard in querying and retrieving information from databases. MySQL is essentially an SQL server - it responds to requests for information that are written in SQL. You can communicate with MySQL using a wide variety of programming languages (PHP being one of the most common). MySQL is Open Source software and free for use.

The Redirects area allows you to redirect Internet traffics from one web page to another. This is usually used when a web page has been moved to another location. Remove a redirect when you no longer want to redirect Internet traffic from a web page. There is no way to modify a redirect - if you need to change the details of an existing redirect, you need to delete the existing one and start again.

Frontpage Extensions enable you to make a complete site using Microsoft FrontPage, which includes a template of server-side scripts and programs.Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your web site using Microsoft Frontpage. These extensions can occasionally become corrupted, so you can uninstall and then reinstall Frontpage Extensions whenever required.

A fast and efficient web server log file analysis program, the Webalizer prepares detailed usage reports usually in HTML format, for optimal viewing. The Web / FTP Statistics area presents you with a wide variety of information about your web site, from the latest visitors to a detailed monthly summary of hits, as well as providing an error log. Use the Statistics tools to keep track of what pages are being visited most often, and where they are being referred from.

Raw access logs contain all the recorded hit information that your site has received. You can set the Raw Log Manager to archive this information every month and/or delete the previous month's log at the end of every month. You can save the raw access logs in a compressed file in your home directory at the end of every month. You can delete last month's archived file at the end of each month.

CGI Center area allows you to use some pre-installed CGI scripts through CPanel. This section contains information about using these scripts, as well as using CGI scripts in general. Following scripts are available through CGI Center:
Simple CGI Wrappper, Random HTML, Guestbook, Advanced Guestbook, Counter Maker, Clock, Java CountDown/CountUp Maker, CGI EMail, FormMail Clone, Entropy Search, Entropy Banner
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is a standard for running external programs from a Web server. CGI allows the returned HTML page to be dynamic - for example, with a CGI script you could access information in a database and format the results as part of an HTML page.

Please Note: Some scripts may be disabled due to security issue or bug.

Agora & Interchange shopping cart - is a fully-featured shopping cart that can be installed with the click of a button.

Cron jobs allow you to automate repetitive tasks on the server that hosts your web site. This is a powerful tool that allows you to take a hands-free approach to repetitive tasks. For example, you could add a cron job that automatically copies a MySQL database to a separate location on your site as a backup.

MIME types tell browsers how to handle specific extensions. Most MIME types are set globally on the server. For example, the text/html MIME type equates to htm, html, and shtml extensions on most servers, and this tells your browser to interpret all files with those extensions as HTML files. You can alter or add new MIME types specifically for your site (note that you can not alter the global MIME type values, only add to them). MIME types are often used to handle new technologies as they appear. When WAP technology first appeared no one had these extensions set up on their server. With MIME types, however, you could have set it up yourself and begun serving WAP pages immediately.

Apache is an open-source HTTP server, and is used to serve your site. Apache handlers tell the server how to deal with web files that need to be processed on the server. For example, Apache is set up to process files with .pl extensions using Perl. However, if for some reason you also wanted to process files with .script extension using Perl, then you would have to set up a custom Apache handler for your site.
Warning: Please check with us before adding an Apache handler, as we can easily alter the correct functioning of your web site.

OpenPGP is a tool for secure online communication. CPanel uses GnuPG for its public-key cryptography so that users may communicate securely. Each person gets a pair of keys, called the public key and the private key. Each person's public key is published while the private key is kept secret. Messages are encrypted using the intended recipient's public key and can only be decrypted using their private key.

Hotlinking is when another web site owner links directly to one or more of your images or multimedia files and includes it on their web page. Not only is this theft of your intellectual property, you are paying for the bandwidth used by that site. CPanel can prevent hotlinking by only allowing named sites (such as your own web site) to access files on your site.
Disable hotlink protection when you no longer think that another web site owner is directly linking to your files.

The Index Manager enables you to control how directories on your web site are displayed. If there is no index.html in a particular directory, the contents of the directory will be displayed to the browser. This is usually undesirable and can cause security issues. You can set the four different options for any directory through the Index Manager.

The IP Deny Manager enables you to block access to your web site from specific IP addresses. This is useful to remove nuisance surfers who use a large amount of bandwidth or to prevent hotlinking to your site.

We DO NOT allow SSH/Shell/Telnet access on our servers.